Container display kit



May 17, 1960 s. M. DOWNS CONTAINER DISPLAY KIT Filed July 16, 1954INVENTOR 1 Jnuuzz H. Downs 2,936,879 CONTAINER DISPLAY KIT Samuel M;Downs, Toledo, Ohio, assignor to Owens- Illinois Glass Company, acorporation of Ohio Application July 16, 1954, Serial No. 443,865 1Claim. (01. 206-4519) The present invention is a novelcontainer displaykit intended for use by salesmen soliciting orders for transparent glassor plastic vials and the like containers which in practice are intendedto contain capsules, tablets, pills and the like perhaps in variouscolors.-

.It is conventional procedure for the salesman to carry with him a kitcontaining sample vials or such containers which are filled withvari-colored capsules or tablets to that the prospective user canreadily visualize the actual appearance of the merchandise and morefully appreciate the eye appeal. The cost of filling a set of vials orsuch containers, which make up a complete kit, is a rather substantialfactor.

It is the primary object of my invention to provide an efiectivesubstitute which completely eliminates the need for placing capsules andthe like in the containers. To

holder 14, is provided with a plurality of rectangular openings16=which, in the disclosed embodiment of my invention, are ofsubstantially the same length as the vials 17 which are to be nestedtherein, but of slightly less width than the diameter of the vials sothat the latter may besupported by the side walls of the openings 16.Immediately beneath each vial, or other container,

is a sheet 18 hearing a pictorial representation of capsules 19 or otheritems, which are particularly adaptable for packaging in the glass orplastic vials 17, or

like containers. A suitable cover 19 forms a part of the carton andperforms a two-fold function of closing the package and preventingdisplacement of the vials 17 in relation to the openings 16 of theholder 14;

It is obvious that the openings 16 in the holder 14 may be of aconfiguration other than that specifically illustrated, so as tosimilarly accommodate containers which are of other than plaincylindrical form.- With the pictorial representation of vari-coloredcapsules or the like providing the background and the transparent scopeof the appended claim.

this end my invention, simply stated, consists in providing a containeror holder for a plurality of empty glass or plastic vials or the likecontainers'and providing a pictorial representation of vari-coloredcapsules, or the,

negligible as compared with the cost of -a suflicient number ofcapsules, or pills to etfectivelydisplay the merchandise.

I claim:

A kit for displaying empty transparent hollow containers being oiier'edfor sale and creating the illusion that such containers are filled withthe product intended ultimately to be packaged therein by the purchases,comprising,'a receptacle having a bottom wall, upstanding side wallsabout the margin of the bottom wall, a cover for the receptacle, a falsebottom lying parallel with the receptacle bottomwall and havingdepending marginal flanges to hold it spaced above and parallel withsaid receptacle bottom wall, said false bottom having a plurality ofdifferent sized vertical openings in said false bottom to accommodateempty transparent hollow con-' tainers, ;one such container positionedin each vertical opening andsecured against lateral movement by engageOther objects will be in part apparent and partpointed j outhereinafter.

In the drawings: 'Figure 1 is a plan view of a display kit embodying myinvention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken substantially along theline 2--2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspective view with parts in section of oneof the vials, its holder and the back ground pictorial showing of aplurality of capsules.

In the. preferred embodiment of myinvention, as

' illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it comprises a distanceabove the bottom 11 of the carton by means of.

depending marginal flanges 15. false bottom or ment with the wallsdefining the opening, the bottom wall of the receptacle having beneatheach said opening and viewable through the corresponding container apictorial representation of a product intended to be packaged inthecontainer.

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